* _This Life Isn't Yours_
* _Landlocked: A Family Memoir_
* _The Anthill: A Novel_
* _Everything That Made You_
Short stories
* "It's Not Me, It's You" in _The Normal School_, edited by Claire Vaye Watkins
* "The Family Man" in _Guernica Daily_
* "How My Mother Died" in _The Offing_
* "What Happens When the Perfect Wife Starts Dreaming?" in _O, The Oprah Magazine_
* "The Women's Room" in _Granta_
* "This Is Where I Live Now" in _Oxford American_
* "This Is Our Church Now" in _Tin House_
* "When You Talk to Me" in _Zoetrope: All-Story_
* "The Last Day" in _Ploughshares_
* "The Man with No Name" in _One Story_
* "The Great Unwashed" in _Alaska Quarterly Review_
* "The Night Everything Changed" in _The Cincinnati Review_
* "The Things We Don't Know" in _The Southern Review_
* "The Best Part of You" in _Glimmer Train_
* "The One Who Gets Away" in _The Gettysburg Review_
* "The Secret History of My Mother" in _Prairie Schooner_
* "The Day the World Ended" in _The Kenyon Review_
* "The Girl Who Was Taken" in _The Georgia Review_
* "The Woman in the Attic" in _The Iowa Review_
* "The House by the Sea" in _The North American Review_
* "The Ghost in the Machine" in _The Paris Review_
* "The End of the World" in _The New Yorker_
* "The One Thing I Can Do for You" in _The Atlantic Monthly_
Essays
* "On Losing a Child" in _The New York Times Magazine_
* "How I Learned to Write About Grief" in _The Iowa Review_
* "The Art of Memoir" in _The Writer's Chronicle_
* "The Unspoken Rules of Writing About Trauma" in _The Rumpus_
* "On Writing About Family" in _The Normal School_, edited by Claire Vaye Watkins
* "The Truth about Writing" in _The Offing_
* "The Power of Story" in _Guernica Daily_
* "The Importance of Reading" in _The Atlantic Monthly_
* "The Writer's Life" in _The New York Times Book Review_
* "The Art of the Short Story" in _The Paris Review_
* "The Novel: A Love Story" in _The American Scholar_
Awards and honors
* National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
* Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
* Whiting Writers' Award
* Guggenheim Fellowship
* PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
* Kirkus Prize for Fiction
* Story Prize
* O. Henry Award
* Pushcart Prize
* Best American Short Stories
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* The Washington Post Top Ten Books of the Year
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